January and February decides the fate of Japanese students preparing for university entrance exams. This year’s high schoolers have been through a particularly stressful period because of policy ...

A nation respectful of centuries-old traditions, Japan is also the well-spring of the world’s future. The high-speed train, the Walkman and humanoid robots are just a few Japanese inventions that have ...

This past fall I was part of a group of educators who were awarded fellowships to travel to Japan and learn about the country’s education system. During my three-week stay in Tokyo and the southern ...

The potential abolition of so many universities is a 'dramatic move' that analysts warn will affect thousands of students and ...

They warned that schools are teaching skills with a “short shelf life” due to the rapid rise of AI. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Shinichi Yamanaka was a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Education at Asia Society in summer 2017. Yamanaka is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria (2015–2016) ...

Professor Yuki Honda, a sociologist at University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Education, is concerned about the rise of state-sponsored authoritarianism within Japan’s compulsory education system.

The Japanese government has pushed through controversial changes to the country’s education law, winding back the clock to the state indoctrination that characterised the militarist regimes of the ...

To stay competitive in a global economy, countries often look to education. In Northeast Asia, an intense pursuit of education has made the region renowned for its numerous entrance-exams at every ...